FOOD LOVE

Feb 9, 2009

SERENDIPITY: Guest Book

What is a garden without daisies in it?

Please use this Serendipity posting like a guest book. Let me know you stopped by

and tell me what you think in general or go to a specific post to leave feedback on it.
Serendipity is happening upon something special whilst looking for something else. That is how I feel when I find your sites.

113 comments:

Hi, well, I'm an old woman,older than you for sure,that just found out what a blog is, sooo what do I do now??? Stalk th blogs in the comments on Pioneer Woman (my first blog experience,heck I thought it was a recipe site until my grown Son informd me) anyhow, I decided I wanted a blog myself,but anyone who's my age or close to it,is artistic or talented in some wonderful way & ME I'm just Meema. THEN I found you! You just blow it all out of the water! I'm SO hooked. You cook, you paint & you are fantastic at your hobby....I don't know whether to hate you or love you! LOL I choose, love,I love your whole blog! Oh yes, I'm dying to win the fantastic painted plaque you did....I'm probably too late for that too.But, I will be back,I have to continue to read all about all you do! Thanks for the uplifting blog today!

Hi Lori!Finally got a chance to look at your blog - great fun! Love the Easter candy poll :) I vote for the mini eggs, too!Thanks for being a good customer of our Store; it was good to see you the other day after the "archives"!

Keep having fun!Anna from The Essential Packaging Store(www.theessentialpackagingstoreblog.blogspot.com)

Lori I love the updated blog page!! It really looks great :) Oh and Adam and I finally got a chance to stop in at Zen Berry... I only wish it was closer to me - that was by far the best latte I've ever had.

So glad you like the updated look. I am also glad you enjoyed the latte. I will pass that on to the owner. Now have you entered to win the next contest? Of course people may hunt you down if you win a second one. lol. Thanks Leah

If summer ever gets here I will make sure there are pictures. I remember trying to get that big bird house home in my old mini van. The rusted metal roofs cut into the seat. That didn't go over well. Then I cut myself a couple times. I don't think I will move it any time soon.

Oh well.. if they are here, at least they don't eat much. :-) Not unlike my kids and their friends. I have two girls in their 20s. I see you have two boys. My mom, who had two of each variety of kid, said that boys were easier on their Moms.

LOVE your blog name. I always ask my girls if a new boyfriend has insanity in his family -- cause if he doesn't, he sure won't fit in with us!

Serendipity: the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way. It has been a fortunate stroke of serendipity to find you and this lovely blog! You love Italy, and I'm crazy about trees. Every kind, perhaps even family trees... Off to the recipe "branch" (tee hee) now.Ciao

Hey, Lori, now I recognize you, since I see the little icon with your name. I just wish I had the time to get to know all of you better, but there's so many of you readers out there, I just can't keep up with all of you! :) But, I'm happy that you stop by to see me, so thanks for that. Glad you are getting some visits too. :)

Well I just dropped by to say hello and to thank you for visiting with us at TwirlandTaste. Like you I love labs, and thanks to my mother and aunts know a little bit about geneology - DAR among others. I tell my mother she has as many papers as my dog - I love them both!Happy Twirls and Happy Easter!

Just found your blog from Blissfully Domestic. I love Geneology and want to do so much more of mine. So fascinating and love finiding out the history. Love to be a new follower to your blog! Looking forward to more of your posts!

Hi Lori,Blue is not my first choice either (Amsterdam Blue) but I keep it contained in my office. Great site you have. I have been deep into my family genealogy for a few years now, amazing what juicy tid bits you uncover. ~Cathy~

Lori, your blog is so pretty. You were menioning where I put my stuff in the off season. I really don't change things out all the time. I do my foyer table for the seasons & sometimes my sideboard in the DR, but the rest of my kitchen stuff you see stays out all the time. I don't have that much storage space!

The amount of people doing genealogy research now is staggering. I do always say that genealogists are the most generous people openly sharing their time, tips, research and family trees with so many. Also thanks to all of you for your comments. They truly are appreciated.

Call me blonde, but I don't know if I am supposed to comment here after a post or in the comment section after each post!! Anyway, wanted to say thanks for visiting and thanks for giving me a chance to find another great blog to follow. I have read all the way down to the suitcase mishap and I am still giggling! I think we very much have the same sense of humor!!

By the way, my brother in law married a girl from Vancouver (now my SIL) and so we were there for the first time last May for the wedding. It was just so beautiful (Vancouver...and the wedding). We rented a home in Kit--- can't remember but it was fabulous.

Thanks for stopping by Miss Bloomers, so nice of you to comment about your experience with stargazers. I love the name of your blog and so glad you stopped by so I could get connected to yours! Thanks, Sonia/Miss Bloomer

Thank you all so much for the kind words. I do get a lot of compliments on the name of my blog but it really is true. Every family has them and if those people around you are just fine then maybe you are the NUT in the family tree. I'm just saying.

Lori !!!!!! I love you ! Thanks so much for the tip on my blog to switch my paints around....nowwhy didn't I think of that, LOL ! I read your post when I was at work today and as soon as I got home I made the switch...I will have to post the picture under the original post - because itlooks to Fab ! Thanks again ! Hugs ~ Kammy

Lori - so nice to meet you. And thanks for dropping by my little blog. I LOVED finding yours and can hardly wait to spend some time going through the past and definitely keeping up with the future.One of my new brother-in-laws is huge into his family geneology and I would love to start thinking about my family (just seems daunting) but retirement is looming and I am also on the west coast so who knows if our paths will (or have) crossed.

GM Lori...girl if you came here I would not put you on the shelf with th Blak Jack gum we would chew and talk each others ears off instead ha ha!! Thanks for coming by and seeing my old junk my friend..May you have a great day...hugs and smiles Gl♥ria

This is such a fantastic blog so I'm going to follow you. It's like finding yourself in a treasure trove with so much to see and read. You are a talent! Thanks for popping by my blog. You are always so kind to comment.

Hey Lori !Yes, we have 52 weeks a year in the U.S. too..so funny I put 26....that's because I work as a payroll clerk and everyone is paid bi-weekly so - 26 times a year..how funny that I was comparing that to dish collecting...yes, you are right I can collect a whole bunch more !Yeah !Hugs ~ Kammy

A garden isn't much without some good old-fashioned daisies in it. I always have Shastas in mine. But the heat is sending them packing for the season. I see you're proficient in genealogy. I would love to learn more about that, as there are so many blanks in my life. Don't know if my mother is alive. Never met my father nor any member of his family. Kind of a crazy story I was born into. Siblings that probably don't know I exist. Etc.Brenda

What a great idea!A Guest Book!My sister is the genealogist of our family. We have been on several trips to search the micro fiche in libraries, too.Glad To have found your fantastic blog!I'll be back often!

Vintage Daisies, a cabin and a lab. Where do I sign up? Oh yeah, I already did! We don't have a creek but our Sunny loves fetching plastic fish out of the pool. His photo is on the right side of my blog along with Oreo, our crazy pound puppy.Dawn

I've been sick, I nearly died in March of exhaustion here in the 21st century...I can't quite hold on to what day it is or month...I really getting better, thanks to just sitting around in my raggity old undewear and blogging..sooooooo

I make me a bowl of oatmeal and apples and deceide to check out a few things before the meds really start kicking in...........2010 WTF, it took me forever to see the disclaimer.

Hello Lori, thanks for your visit on Foodie Friday. My grands have all gone home as of yesterday and I have a boatload of visiting to do. No time for commenting in all my chaos. I have been reading your blog and love it. 'and your humor'

No coffee yet this am so I must get some NOW. I am like you and discovered blogging late in my life. I first read Pioneer Woman too. My friend Beverly at How Sweet the Sound helped me get started a year ago. No link, sorry. Now for my coffee.

Lori--I have been at the beach and missed your poll! One of the reasons I comment is that I feel I have made some friends through blogging and I like to chat with them! I even missed y'all while I was away! Keep posting; I'll keep commenting :)

Hi Lori,Just catching up, I enjoyed my visit. I leave comments because I like receiving comments. It is so fun to see what the wonderful world of blogland is up to. Loved your blog, see you around soon.Maryrose

OK, I had a half finished comment and then my little pup decided to pounce the keyboard and I have no idea where it went...but, as I had been saying...Thanks for stopping by and I love your blog. I am now headed over to see your Santas and can't wait to see them all because I am a certified Christmasaholic!

Hi Lorie, I enjoyed visiting your blog. I also am a historian of sorts; at least family members think I am the keeper of all things historical. We have a lot of old photos, but not going back much before the turn of last century. My dad wrote our family history--he was an avid geneologist.

Lori, nice to meet you. Thanks for swinging by my blog to say hello. I always love when guests arrive. I'm glad you found paving stones underneath your overgrowth. Girl there is so much going on around here with hubby's health issues I'm incredibly behind on the outside stuff. I'm slowly getting around to it. With fall temps in the air winter will be hitting us in the backside quickly so I've got to get on it before then.. lol.. Hope all is well with you today..hugs ~lynne~

Just stopping by to say hello. New England Historical Genealogy Society is now putting the CT Nutmegger online and I've been busy researching it lately. So far have not found any info I dont' already have but it's always nice to have another source.

Well, I'm considered the nut in my family and they've all made that clear for many years. I'm the one whose name is on the family tree and will be quickly forgotten with weeds growing up around it. I believe they think I'm the low hanging fruit. And that's okay because there is someone more nuts than me who is very famous and very unpleasant also hanging on the tree. They should all be happy I'M the one that shows up on Thanksgiving and not him.

Hi Lori,Thank you for stopping by my blog and entering the contest and also thank you so much for posting the button on your page.It's always so nice to meet new friends. I have loved my visit to your blog. You have a lot of great pictures and love the Santas!Have a great day!~Karen

Hello! You are the first blog I have found that loves genealogy! I also am a family researcher and have been doing my own family tree for the last three years. It is so addictive! I just love the hunt!!!!! Please stop by and say hello sometime! I have you in my favorites! Sandy

Lori I love that word serendipty and experiencing it too like the other day when a bee came to join us for lunch. It was so fun to watch him slup up the little pilled up balls of soda on the side of my DH cup! (I was good and had water which the bee did not care about!)

Hi Lori! Thanks for stopping by my blog and becoming a follower. I am really touched. I love reading your blog. You have such talent! I look forward to following your blog and seeing what you are up to!

Hi Lori !I am sure your LG computer will be fine - I love my LG cell phones and should have really stressed that it is the appliances where they aren't so good. They have been out for only a couple of years and they are number 1 on warranty claims and service calls....hmmmm - the appliances are made in Indonesia...I should never have purchased such a new product. One of the heating elements went out on the stove...I was told it is super expensive to replace. The microwwave door glass fell out after 14 months - it is siloconed in for now as a new door is a couple hundred dollars. The dishwasher's pump went out and it cost $70 for the appliance guy to give me a $400 quote to fix a $600 dishwasher...we decided to spend a couple more and replace altogether. I bought is at Lowes and gladly spent another $99 for a 5 year warranty. Enough ranting....Thanks for visiting me kind Lori !Kammy

Thanks for stopping by my blog. I have bookmarked yours and have invited myself to be a follower. I was born in Austria. During and after the war, when my dad was a very young man, he traced the family roots all the way back to 1600-something. He spent most of his income sending for copies, mostly hand-written of birth, death, and marriage certificates. The reason he couldn't go back further, is that the last birth was an illegitimate one, a nobleman was the father, the mother was sent to a convent, where the child was raised, and the religious person who guarded the records wasn't open-minded enough yet to release any further information. I'm thinking today one could get that info, if the records survived the war. There were some interesting causes of death on the death certificates. Since I am the only family member left who can read and write German, these treasured papers are in my possession.

okay Lori, here i am! i am a fan of genealogy too.mine's really interesting because, here in the Phil. we do have a good mix of genetic ingredients!

my mixture of Filipino (that's tagalog, cebuano, boholanon), Spanish (Castillian), Swiss, Chinese, French and Cuban is quite confusing?! whoa! i am able to trace the Swiss ancestry as far back as 1871 when my great great grandfather arrived and established a business (Almazen de Suiza) in the European enclave of Binondo, Manila. oh well, so much for that...

this is really a beautiful blog! i appreciate your wonderful, positive presence in blogspace...i'll be following...you're welcome to visit my blog too...

Lori, Thanks for all your posted comments, encouragement, and fun things you come up with that helps those like myself to stretch and grow.So, you make up your mind in 2 min. about the person you meet. We must be some what alike. I chose my husband when I met him the first time. LOL He thought I was nuts at first. We were married of course. ; ) a wonderful 38 years.

Thanks for the article link on coats of arms. I knew you were not supposed to get or display a coat of arms if you were not the direct descendant with the right to but did not know about the registry and forgery. Fascinating. To think my daughter had thought of making their own family coat of arms for their family home evening.

Hi Lori, You invited me to check our your Santas so of course I did. Glad you enjoyed my Santas. Amazingly, I don't think you and I have a single Santa in common. So obviously it's a really big world of Santas out there with a huge variety of them. Enjoying your blog btw.

Hi Lori about the Law Inforcement appreceation week I would like to say I remember well all the hard work they did when my son was stabbed they put so much work into getting the punks who did it But the crminal system let them down. Im sure you will remember to because you stayed by my side all through the trial. always thanks love you Dot

Found our blog via SurfChick100 as I just met up with her last week and we were discussing brick walls in our family tree and she said to email you with my problem as you helped her so when I get a minute I'll make contact to see if you can help me too.

Hi Lori. I just wanted to say that I have finally tried one of your wonderful recipes..it was the Caesar Cherry Tomatoes (with dipping salt) and they turned out to be one of the best little appetizers ever! Stacked up in a pretty martini glass, they looked as good as they tasted. People asked for the recipe. One person said that he would like to make them to add as a garnish to his caesar cocktails, which is an excellent idea. Cheers!

So glad they turned out Shirley. I love to hear back from people who have tried my recipes. I haven't put the recipe on the blog yet but it is on my recipe web site https://sites.google.com/site/fromloriskitchen/